The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line

by Roderick Bush

Overview

The End of White World Supremacy explores a complex issue— integration of Blacks into White America—from multiple perspectives: within the United States, globally, and in the context of movements for social justice. Roderick Bush locates himself within a tradition of African American activism that goes back at least to W.E.B. Du Bois. In so doing, he communicates between two literatures—worldsystems analysis and radical Black social movement history—and sustains the dialogue throughout the book.

Bush explains how racial troubles in the U.S. are symptomatic of the troubled relationship between the white and dark worlds globally. Beginning with an account of white European dominance leading to capitalist dominance by White America, The End of White World Supremacy ultimately wonders whether, as Myrdal argued in the 1940s, the American creed can provide a pathway to break this historical conundrum and give birth to international social justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592135745
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	07/28/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	365 KB

About the Author

Roderick Bush is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at St. John’s University in New York City. Long an activist in the Black Power and radical movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, Bush returned to the academy in 1988 to obtain a Ph.D. He is the author of We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century, and editor of The New Black Vote: Politics and Power in Four American Cities.

Table of Contents

Introduction: “The Handwriting on the Wall”

PART I: Theory 
1. The Peculiar Internationalism of Black Nationalism 
2. The Sociology of the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois and the End of White World Supremacy 
3. The Class- First, Race- First Debate: The Contradictions of Nationalism and Internationalism and the Stratification of the World- System
4. Black Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Critique of Masculinist Models of Liberation

PART II: Radical Social Movements 
5. The Civil Rights Movement and the Continuing Struggle for the Redemption of America 
6. Black Power, the American Dream, and the Spirit of Bandung: Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Age of World Revolution 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Editorial Reviews

Rod Bush has produced an outstanding and original work that will allow scholars to effectively reframe many central issues pertaining to the history of race-based social movements and Black political thought specifically and radical social movements of the past 40 years more generally.”—David Baronov, Associate Professor of Sociology, St. John Fisher College

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